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In this provocative eBook, sixteen of Minnesota's best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in Minnesota. They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being's inner reality, behind masks and veils and politeness. They bring us generously into experiences that we must understand if we are to come together in real relationships. Minnesota communities struggle with some of the...
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Ce collectif rassemble des témoignages sur la plus longue grève qu'à connue Haïti. Enquêtes, photos, documents d'archives, pamphlets restituent cette mémoire. Acteurs et témoins évoquent la résistance à l'horreur et l'urgence d'une société fondée sur le respect des droits humains. Entre savoir et démocratie. Les luttes de l'Union nationale des Étudiants haïtiens (UNEH) sous le gouvernement de François Duvalier retrace cette tragique...
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The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. Based on the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, in which a group of white supremacists rioted and overthrew the elected government of Wilmington, North Carolina, killing hundreds of African Americans and displacing thousands more-The Marrow of Tradition follows two interconnected families on opposite sides of the violence.
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Extrait: "J'ai vu l'Egypte, et je peux vous dire mon impression d'ensemble sur cet étrange pays. Mon voyage dans la Haute Egypte, en compagnie de M. Mariette, n'a fait que confirmer les vues que je m'étais formées tout d'abord lors de ma première course à Sakkara et aux Pyramides. La solidité parfaite de l'histoire d'Egypte est pour moi une chose démontrée."
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Extrait: "Le Caire, 22 novembre - Ce n'est pas sans difficulté que nous avons trouvé un htel. Celui qui nous héberge est flambant neuf, si neuf qu'il n'est pas encore terminé; construit exprès pour les fêtes, personne n'y avait encore couché. Nous l'étrennons. Malheureusement, les meubles qui sont censés le garnir ont été expédiés à Suez..."
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You Have Given Me a Country is an emotionally powerful exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be multicultural. Combining memoir, history, and fiction, the book follows the paths of the author's Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey toward each other and the biracial child they create. Neela Vaswani's second full-length work thematically echoes such books as The Color of Water, Running in the Family,...
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America is at a crossroads. We are searching for home in places where belonging and identity are often contested. Editor Cinelle Barnes takes this search to the South, a place haunted by a history of exclusion and discrimination. In A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South, twenty-one writers share powerful experiences of living, working, and writing during this complicated time.
These essays examine issues of sex, gender,...
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First Published in 1920, "Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" is the first of three autobiographical works by W. E. B. Du Bois, the American sociologist, educator, author, historian, and civil rights activist. Presented as a collection of essays, poems, and spiritual songs, "Darkwater" is part personal memoir and part social commentary and criticism. Du Bois was deeply spiritual and relied heavily on his Christian beliefs throughout his life....
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In recent years, feminism has been at the forefront of social criticism in the United States, but the mainstream face of feminism is still typically white and often focused on gender issues to the exclusion of race, class, and almost everything else. Meanwhile, there are long and rich traditions of women-of-color-centered feminisms that acknowledge all systems of power as connected, and recognize how ending one form of violence entails the transformation...
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This volume of The Grand Scribe's Records includes the second segment of Han-dynasty memoirs and deals primarily with men who lived and served under Emperor Wu (r. 141—87 B.C.). The lead chapter presents a parallel biography of two ancient physicians, Pien Ch'üeh and Ts'ang Kung, providing a transition between the founding of the Han dynasty and its heyday under Wu. The account of Liu P'i is framed by the great rebellion he led in 154 B.C. and...
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"This book is a collection of oral histories, along with many photos, from the author's travels from the Deep South to the West Coast, and it shows what people across America lost and found because of COVID. Some have lost family, friends, jobs, even physical mobility. Others have found purpose that eluded them before the pandemic"--
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Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published...
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Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present. A collection of forty interwoven stories, conversations, and teachings about Western Cherokee life, beliefs, and the art of storytelling, the book orchestrates a multilayered conversation between a group of honored Cherokee elders, storytellers, and knowledge-keepers and the communities...
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From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured in its articles and pamphlets contributions from some of the leading writers and activists of the time: C. L. R. James, Darcus Howe, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Walter Rodney, Bobby Sands, Farrukh Dhondy...
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A collection of the best essays and articles that have been published on Andscape (formerly The Undefeated)- curated by Steve Reiss, Andscape's Executive Editor of Culture and Enterprise, and featuring an introduction by Raina Kelley, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief. BlackTold: 33 Dynamic Essays from Andscape, is a collection of the most dynamic articles to have been published on the ESPN's Andscape.com, a multi-media platform that publishes content...
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BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the American civil rights movement and played a deeply influential role in the life of Martin Luther
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"Clarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his many accolades, he was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Fulbright scholar and received the PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award. His work has been featured in many literary journals, newspapers, and magazines, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Ploughshares....
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* An important book about one of the world's most inspirational yet least-known mythologies, written by an expert in the genre.
* One of the most comprehensive collections of its kind. Based on three years' research through hundreds of archives, revealing a treasure trove of material, some never before available to the general UK reader.
* Over 100 ancient stories, verse narratives, songs, anecdotes and fragments of wisdom, sourced from 55 different...
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Fifty years of deep hanging out in California's Indian country
Writer and publisher Malcolm Margolin has been "deep hanging out"-or immersing himself in a social, informal way-in California's Indian country since the 1970s. This volume collects thirty articles, introductions, and other pieces he wrote about California's diverse Indian country (well over one hundred tribes), drawn mainly from the quarterly magazine he cofounded in 1987, News from...
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